[infinispan-dev] Auto Scaling for Infinispan

Manik Surtani manik at jboss.org
Fri Dec 9 11:12:36 EST 2011


So from a CloudTM perspective, this is a part of the adaptive, self-tuning configuration aspect of things?  Or is it auto-provisioning (i.e., adding/removing nodes to meet QoS parameters)?

- Manik

On 4 Dec 2011, at 13:37, Paolo Romano wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> one more result from the Cloud-TM project that we thought might be 
> interesting for the Infinispan community (and possibly OpenShift).
> 
> Our last effort is a system for automating elastic scaling for 
> Infinispan, which we named TAS: Transactional Auto Scaler.
> 
> TAS uses a hybrid methodology combining analytical modelling, for 
> forecasting the effects of data contention, and machine learning 
> techniques (we experimented both with Radial Basis Functions Aritificial 
> Neural Networks and Regression Decision Trees), for forecasting the 
> effects of contention on hardware resources.
> 
> Applications of TAS range from on-line self-optimization of 
> in-production applications, to the automatic generation of QoS/cost 
> driven elastic scaling policies, and support for what-if analysis on the 
> scalability of transactional applications.
> 
> Results look pretty good, probably even better than we were originally 
> hoping! ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>     Paolo
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